New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-15
STRIKERS GOING BACK.
NOT ALL OF THEM ALLOWED TO WORK.
now THEY TREATED THE NEW MES-ALL ENfEci-
ING TO BE BR-EMPLoYED.

now THEY TREATED THE NEW MEN-ALL ENPECi-
ING TO BE BR-EMPLoYED.
The strike OF 'longshoremen has assumed more dch
mite shape spite OF the resolutions or the ohehore
mems and other meetings Sunday that they wouhi
only 90 back to bodies and when the men VINO
had taken their places had been discharged they gener
ally returned TO work yesterday at the old rate OF wages
on both river-onts On the East River except ON the
regular steamship lines the rate for some time before the
strike was forty cents hour for day Work ana Sixty
cents for night work The with hardly an exception
have returned to work at these rates Besides 'he
regular workers on the East River. many Oh the
men from the other side of the city have SUCCEEDED
in getting work and will stay until matters assume
more satisfactory shape on the North River
The New-York NewHaven and Hartford Line' i1er NO.
so East River is exception. President various oi
that COMPANY informed a committee that waited on MIN
that he did his old men back and refused 70 TAKE
them at any terms At the Clyde Line, Pier No. ~ the
polc, station has been removed and anars
have assumed their normal condition. The new men
were paid OF yesterday and majority Oh 'hen "cro SEM
away those who kept at work we're set 10 trucking
goods aboard ship while the union men WHO were 'ahe
back slowed the cargo Along the East lVer 'front.' 'nere
were as many ongshoremen at work as there us
av are when no strike Is In progress and few were
standing on the corners looking for work.
The New-York New Haven and Hartford transfer boat
mon arc with the food that Is given them
They get $50 q month and board Only ~ month Is
allowed for food for each man. anu they e''' '"ey u"
not get enough TO eat
Along the North River front the situation Is not so
favorable to the strikers the other river though the
major ty Of the men have got work. The Metropolitan
Line Boston the only one which has been repo'ou
at Headquarters absolutely refusing TO take pach the
old men 4 resolution has been passed Dy DOM the
Ocean Association and the Lougshoremens Union to
work on the cOaswise lines at 30 and % cents an our
for day and night work, instead of 40 and 90 cents
the rate demanded for transatlantic steamers as
the work is steadier and lighter. committee
consisting OF J. j. McKcnna, Daniel Hurley and John
Ssv and they protested their willingness to take their
old men back 30 and As cents an hour the Oh rate
but the men insisted the regular eoaswise rates Al
the Anchor Line Pier No 49, the old men Will be taReu
back In q body ut the old rates ,,,,,
and their chances with the union men Inc lat
ter i'll many cases brmay Iea ed oy the srlkers
old hands are, and boxes were tipped against nst
them The union men would run into them WIN tnelr
trucks and when the agent superintendent or me
pier was not looking would call the green men vile
and threaten them with injury II they dd not &c!
out This the plan of action that the strikers decided
>upDn when they that they were beaten III mas
forced large number OF men away from the piers ana
strikers that in two weeks there will be as many
sfrSe BEGAN At all the piers on the west side
strikers made application for work and said that they
would work az the old wages In most places however
they were told that there places for them 1t
was stated that the old employees OF the Morgan me
we're to be taken back this morning and were only wait
ing for the company to get nd OF the at work
1t was said at the office that such action would not be
the Street when any were wanted, one hundred
m 9 aT.ev SE Contra, hs PIER R Racei forced to
in the morning because OF the brutal treatment
employed there Their places were filled by union
The strikers were also taken back al the on Anchor
Line Pier. No SO North River where tramp steamers We
up, and body OF union men returned 10 Work on mo
| Hill Line Pier No. 46.
Co. who have been time. returned 20 work
yesterday morning at the old rate OF wages Inc com.
pany has supply Of coal on hand and does not
anticipate shutting down again ON account OF LACK Oh
Among the police and at the Morgan Line pier 1T is
thought the putting Of explosives on the pier was
done intmidate the company The bonb could not
n HS.1. Ss would nave done les. damage than did
zinc pns sSe bomb there and il viii lie Impossible
him unless of his associates makes confession
ton to leave the Knights OF Labor have pretty well
made up minds apply for admssio 10 the Amer-
can Federation OF Labor In this determination they are
backed up by the There about 600 OF
them who were attached to District Assembly No 40.
| The engineers who strike against the use OF
nonunion coal in Il. $. Higgins a. cos carpet factory
gone back to work and the OF tue factory
was started up ye,terasy over 100" people arc mus
Although tho men employed ON rle pss humber
OF them reenployed by the stey edores VINO ha
filed their places with green hands At Prentice ana
the Mediterranean stores the rate Of reduced
from 40 80 cents an hour and the men would not ac
union at work and 200 extra police we're on
duty, but outbreak occurred. " -.,,
out but they want to be- Yesterday about
hundred who had worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad
wharf be taken back, but only hf dozen were
rensated. The others were told that they woui ma
officials say they will not be discharged while they
do their work At the Ere none OF the strikers were
taken back At the Red star Steamship pier the striking
longshoremen who applied for work were told that they
| were not wanted The men employed on the monarch
wharf all back The coal trmmers strike II
New Jersey remains unchanged AT the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Railroad wharves the =, non
union men were moving coal rapidly and II was said by
those charge that the strikers would not be taken back
number OF the strikers who had been in the employ
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company ut WeehawSei
asked to be taken back, but was refused